Illegal export was heading for China, before smuggling chain busted in major operation in Khabarovsk region.

Odd couple are separated amid concerns big cat Amur is becoming aggressive.

Second female student held under house arrest in shocking Khabarovsk case: but is a disturbing sexual fetish behind the savagery?

Black bear pounced on Stas Nagornov as he returned home from the shop in the centre of Amgu village.

Terrorised by dogs, beaten with sticks by children, and scared by people taking selfies, the cub died.

DNA research of Native Siberians and Native Americans revealed by Science and Nature journals.

Actor is being awarded the Siberian Oscar (if he arrives to collect it) - but is also now wanted as a tourism guru after 'blunder' on Urals pollution.

The rare Amur tigress was saved from starvation more than a year ago after she was orphaned when poachers killed her mother.

Fires have wreaked havoc this summer with Yakutia and the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous the latest to be hard hit.